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MACDC Members helped 81,219 families with housing, jobs & other services in 2016.

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MACDC Members bring residents together to build community & to advocate for shared values.

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MACDC Members in 2016 provided support to businesses that created or preserved 5,285 jobs.

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MACDC Members in 2016 built or preserved 1,643 homes for individuals & families.

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MACDC Members bring people together to celebrate community through arts & cultural programming.

Welcome to MACDC - The Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations

At Our Core

MACDC is an association of mission-driven community development organizations dedicated to creating places of opportunity where ALL people can live with dignity while participating in and benefiting from our Commonwealth's economy.

As a tool to increase and establish a diversified mix of funding sources for CDCs in Massachusetts, the CITC program is a great success. But that isn't a complete or satisfactory understanding of the CITC program's impact on our field. Through this report, MACDC explores the impacts of the CITC program in 2016, 2107, and 2018.

Last week, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition released, The GAP – A Shortage of Affordable Homes, its annual report documenting the shortage of housing available for low-income Americans. The report provides many depressingly familiar statistics:

Exciting new data and resources are available to support the work of Community Development Corporations to foster vibrant, healthy and thriving cities and towns across the state as well as help make connections to the growing Age- and Dementia Friendly movement.